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From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEnie uplink is shut down..
Keywords: whups, genie, usenet, uplink
Message-ID: <1989Dec22.220525.3316@ns.network.com>
Date: 22 Dec 89 22:05:25 GMT
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In article <15158@well.UUCP> dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) writes:
>I've gone ahead and shut it down. It won't be back
>up unless those concerns are resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

Everyone implies unanimity -- one disenting voice would therefore be
enough to kill it.

Why don't you rephrase it, "it won't be shut off unless EVERYONE wants
it shut off."

Your selection of one sentence over the other is arbitrary.

> Many did not want to see information going only one way.

Tough cookies.  You shouldn't let people brow beat you.  Doing the right
thing does not always win you popularity contests.  Sometimes you have
to be a moral/ethical leader rather than a follower.  This selfish group
of USENET whiners is in desperate need of a model to emulate.  You have
the credibility to be that model.

> Would GEnie put some sort of anthology copyright on the notes?

Come on, this is a joke, right?  I mean I expect a little legal ignorance
on the net, but this is hilarious.

>no for-profit on my part

Caving in to those socialists out there, ehy?  Are you going to give up
making a profit on other areas of your life to please them also?  And
why is "profit" always defined in green-backs?  Do not all the users of
USENET and GEnie profit?  If they didn't wouldn't they quit using those
services.  But back to green-backs.  No one has answered my question
about why telephone companies, computer companines, modem companies and
software companies can all make money off USENET sites and GEnie can't.

You guys are being completely arbitrary -- you cannot justify your
arguments.  

> I don't want a thousand "How do I beat Level 7 on Dungeon Master" notes
> on the Net, either.

What has this got to do with anything?  What is this, Small's version of
the Canadian Content laws?

>If I've offended anyone, my apologies;

I should be offended by your whimping out and leaving the GEnie user in
the information poor house.  But they are the ones really hurt by your
caving in to the selfish USENET whiners.

>acceptable way. (That means acceptable to you, not to me, ok?)

Hey, your off to a bad start if you are trying to please me.  Remember
Neville Chamberline.


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